Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A compound suffix, composed of elements answering to -ity and -ous, occurring in some adjectives, as calamitous, felicitous, gratuitous, iniquitous, necessitous, etc.
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Examples
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QUEST: With plans for 15 cities in the next five years, this hotel plans to become "Qbic-itous."
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Sometimes it's the book disease... lately it has been Fabric-itous: An insatiable need to shop for and horde 1/2 yrds of every pretty fabric I find!
Into the Wardrobe Tarie 2007
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They had left the can-non at the bottom of the gorge since the men had rebelled at the prospect of hauling the six? pounder up the precip-itous slope.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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Apparently these encounters had not been fortu-itous.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984
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The problem of maintaining both free will and fated causality was at the root of explanations of the fortu - itous in a providential universe.
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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Their impact on many observers was that of precip - itous, even calamitous, change; in a word, crisis.
CRISIS IN HISTORY GERHARD MASUR 1968
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It sprang from the ruddy strand, leaped the crimson tide, and dropped three miles away upon a precip - itous, jagged upthrust of rock frowning black from the lac-quered depths.
The Moon Pool 1919
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You wouldn't believe the clam-itous amount of punishment we underwent.
WoW.com 2009
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The Chippeways are well disposed towards the whites, but excessively fond of spir - itous liquors.
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Hence he is ever concerned about his heart in duty, and folic - itous to have that right with God.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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